I am not one to start a quilt and not finish it in a timely manner. Sometimes they wait a while to be quilted, but I usually get them finis...
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From the moment I designed this pattern, I knew that I wanted to create one using prints. Bonnie Christine's new collection with Art Gallery Fabrics is truly to die for. It's moody with a mix of vintage. UGH. I love it so much. I did a mock-up with the collection and could hardly wait to get started! . . I opted to go
I recently finished a Book Nook quilt using Minki Kim's Forgotten Memories collection! The Book Nook pattern will be available January 6th! A QAL for the pattern starts January 15th! You can sign up for the quilt along HERE! I have an extra fondness for this quilt because most of it was made during a recent Sewtopia qu
Here's a patriotic sampler I found in the records of the Tennessee project and the Quilt Index. I betcha there's a New York connec...
You sure as heck didn’t think I was going to leave Charley Harper out of my Ohio Star quilt, right? Of course, his art is my inspiration for April’s Ohio Star quilt block! As a Cincinnati icon, his work is delightfully everywhere. Do you remember that huge book by Todd Oldham? It was published in…
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Full step by step tutorial. Quilt a two sided square then sew them together. This quilt got put into a bin and was forgotten for 23 years and now it is final...
I had forgotten that last weekend was the annual quilt show of a local quilt guild, but I decided to make time to run over late Sunday afte...
Pictures - My first quilt Dahlia - Oops ... For those who need step by step access the (Tutorial) For those who need more instructions I bought in amazon the Pattern There was a whole bunch of pieces I'd forgotten, so yesterday I took them out of the box and put it together. And finally I finished my quilt Dahlia.
Welcome back! Yesterday I shared with you part 1 of my "Cross It" Quilt...hopefully you haven't forgotten already, you can check out part 1 of this post here....but the pattern looks like this: So as I mentioned, I could see this finished quilt in my mind, so I had a pretty good Idea of how…
A few years ago a friend in Texas challenged the members of our Quilting Bee to make a quilt block with some rather unique fabric. Her only instructions were, "Let the fabric speak to you"! I don't think any of us have ever forgotten those instructions!! Right Lanelle ;-)?? In February 2009 I got another…
Vintage Double Wedding Ring tops, blocks and pieces are some of the easier vintage quilt projects to find. It was a hugely popular pattern during the Depression, but it's also a fairly difficult one to piece. It seems that many woman began working on them, but then at some point became frustrated. Because I have managed to collect lots of Double Wedding Ring quilt blocks and pieces, I am always looking for patterns where I can use those little skinny rectangles. Yesterday I was looking through my old quilt booklets, and found this pattern, which I had forgotten all about. The B piece is too wide for the DWR pieces I'll be using, so I redrafted the pattern, changing the 3 B pieces into one rectangle template. I also changed the size of the rectangle to fit my slightly longer DWR pieces. It's a liberating feeling to be able to use a simple ruler, compass, and protractor to design or change any quilt pattern you like. Here is the box of 2,200 pieces I'll be using to make the new B rectangle -- originally 220 1930s Double Wedding Ring arcs. First I starch and press my little pieces, sew five together (turning every other piece upside down to accommodate the angled sides), press again, trace my rectangle template on the right side of the fabric, and cut. For more ideas on how to use vintage Double Wedding Ring blocks and pieces, here are some patterns I have used in the past. Cottage Doll Quilt Ferris Wheel Quilt Top Baby Doll Quilt Strip Pieced Tulip Quilt Blocks Bunny Quilt Top Baby Bunting Quilt Blocks Friendship Knot Quilt Blocks (these DWR pieces were wider)
This meeting saw the largest gathering (ever?), for the Dear Jane Retreat with 122 attendees not only from the USA, but from Canada, Australia, Norway, Germany(via Norway), Belgium and of course me from the UK - we were truly an international meet! With Elaine's excellent organisation skills, 122 people in the sewing room at one time did not feel like the tight squeeze that I feared (I am very uncomfortable in large crowds), and the time passed so quickly with the stitching, chatting to old friends and new, eating and of course all the shopping including a 3 hour visit to the ubiquitous boat in the basement of Lollys. Here's Theresa, Gay, Myself and Carla taking a breather from searching the boat! Picture by Claire Five of us spent 3 hours turning the contents of that boat over and over, there were some wonderful treasures in there, believe me! Rosemary Youngs gave a special retrospective presentation of some of her quilts - apologies for some of the photographs... And then of course there was the Show n' Tell on Friday night... We had a number of "Goddess's" present - you are crowned a goddess when you complete your Dear Jane Quilt. Here are a few of them... Caroline Van Maele - Belgium Barbara Larson and her 2" block Dear Jane Quilt Trudi Wells from New York - This was a truly emotional moment, I have been watching Trudi make her quilt for 9 years - there's hope for me one day! Nancy King - Indianapolis Rosemary Youngs becomes a Dear Jane Goddess! Made by Nancy King Patty Harris and her Just Take 2 Quilt Patty and Prue made the same quilt, but in different colourways Prue's Just Take 2 Quilt Edith Shanholt's Phebe Quilt - close-up of centre Edith Shanholt's Phebe Quilt Each November, in the wee small hours of Saturday morning the animals, led by Timothy get up to tricks. But this year...Timothy (the leader of the pack) had been forgotten back home in Indianapolis and the animals were not happy! Pam, Timothy's owner, was not allowed to forget that she had forgotten him and had to sit opposite this to remind her of this fact! After all the wild weather of the previous weekend, snow began to fall - cue, one very excited Brit! One more post to come! Have a good stitching day!
It’s only the first nine days of the month and I was thinking that this Post title should be the Mary Month of August. Ever since Mary Etherington posted on August 1st that #10 is the number and Pink is the color for the Country Threads Dirty Dozen UFO Challenge, I’ve been almost behaving myself with focusing on two of the projects I listed. I had already made two flimsies first, which will be shown later in the post, before starting the Big Block Quilt #Tula which was a flimsy made a year ago in July, 2022. My first priority in the UFO Challenge is to always finish a flimsy. If you’re wondering about how I came up with the name for this quilt is that I made a Big Easy Quilt #1 with Carrie Bloomston fabrics almost three years ago, you can see it Here. Since this is my second version or #2 made with Tula Pink fabrics, I thought #Tula which sounds like two, would be more fun. The Big Easy Quilt has 16” blocks made up of either 2.5”strip, 4.5” squares and strips, 8.5” squares and 8.5” x 16.5” bricks. I drew the blocks on my trusty graph paper just like I did for the first Big Easy Quilt based on the large focal prints and accent fabrics in my Tula Pink stash. I love making big blocks especially with fun and beautiful fabrics. I used various collections of Tula Pink fabrics and the above blocks include some of my favorite prints. I wasn’t planning on machine quilting the Big Easy #Tula quilt yesterday but somehow managed to prep the flimsy and backing, baste, machine quilt and bind it in less than eight hours which worked out great since we’re leaving tomorrow for the GP House. The machine quilting was wavey lines two inches apart, done while listening to Hawaiian Ukele music, with Aurifil #2415 Pink on the top and #2605 Gray on the bottom. I thought using pink thread would be so appropriate for Tula Pink and it is the color for the August UFO Challenge. The backing was a wide-back multi dot print found in the backing vault and the binding is the Tula Pink Tent Print in Pink/Orange. The Big Easy #Tula quilt measures 64” x 80". As mentioned earlier in this Post, I made two flimsies prior to finishing the Big Easy Quilt #Tula which you can see above. The Flag Quilt flimsy on the left was one of the projects listed for August and I was lucky to have started working on the blocks last month. I will write more about this quilt after it is a Finally Finish which I hope will be by the end of August. The Strip and Brick quilt which is based on GE Design Koby Quilt was not on any list and I was inspired to make it after I found yardage of a print which was designed by Country Threads and never knew I had. I’ll reveal which print it was after this too is also a Finally Finished, and again, hopefullly by the end of this month. I did jokingly asked Mary if she would like some of this fabric And the last piece of the Mary-ment to this Post is while having a text exchange with Mary about the dog fabric in the middle which lead to her discovery as to it being a 5 yard piece, I ended up receiving yardage of it. It is a dec weight/canvas fabric and I just so happened to have in my stash the colorful fabrics on the left and right, also dec and linen weight which would go well with dog fabric. I’m thinking this would be great for a tote bag and when I do make one I’ll be sure to make one for Mary. One last pic of the Big Easy Quilt #Tula reclining on the front porch bench. I wish a high back chair, like a throne was available instead. The Master Quilt Holder had a hard time holding up this quilt during photo taking; I’d forgotten that a 64” wide quilt is hard to hold up without fingers showing especially if it’s also 80" long so asking him to move one of the wing back chairs from the living room was out of the question. I think he might be making one of those quilt holders for photo taking that I’ve seen on other quilters’ blogs. I did confess to him finally that such a holder could be used but then I’m still holding out for a clothes line in the back yard. We’re going to be busy at the GP House this weekend since The Master Quilt Holder and his fellow band mates will be performing at the Illinois State Fair on Monday, August 14th. This and spending time with the darling Granddaughter will leave little time for quilting which is fine since I need to take a break. Linking up with My Quilt Infatuation/NTT
